Greater Khorasan : : History, Geography, Archaeology and Material Culture / / ed. by Rocco Rante.

The modern sense of “Greater Khorasan” today corresponds to a territory which not only comprises the region in the east of Iran but also, beyond Iranian frontiers, a part of Afghanistan and Turkmenistan. In the past this entity was simply defined as Khorasan. In the Sassanid era Khorasan defined the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2015]
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Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East , 29
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Physical Description:1 online resource (310 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Table of Contents
  • Pre-Mongol Khurasan. A Historical Introduction
  • “Khorasan Proper” and “Greater Khorasan” within a politico-cultural framework
  • La crise d’aridité climatique de la fin du 3ème millénaire av. J.-C., à la lumière des contextes géomorphologique de 3 sites d’Iran Oriental (Bam, Tepe Damghani, Jiroft)
  • From Parthian to Islamic Nisa
  • Merv on Khorasanian trade routes from the 10th–13th centuries
  • Ancient Herat Revisited. New Data from Recent Archaeological Fieldwork
  • Trois mosquées du début de l’ère islamique au Grand Khorassan : Bastam, Noh-Gonbadan/Haji-Piyadah de Balkh et Zuzan d’après des investigations archéologiques
  • Le paysage urbain de Nishapur
  • Nouvelles recherches sur la céramique de Nishapur : la prospection du shahrestan
  • Archaeological Material in the Museum Setting: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Excavations at Nishapur
  • Nishapur Ceramics in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: 70 years of Restoration Techniques
  • Le Grand Khorasan : Datation par des méthodes physico-chimiques (carbone 14 et luminescence)
  • Index
  • Maps